COMMUNIST RULE

Grey River Argus, 28 August 1946, Page 5

COMMUNIST RULE

In Yugoslavia EX-PRESIDENT HOOVER URGES FREE ELECTIONS (Rec. 9.50). NEW YORK, Aug. 27. Ex-President Herbert Hoover declares: The United States should halt the relief supplies that it is now sending to Yugoslavia until there can be held in that country the free election which was agreed on at the Big Three conference at Yalta. After such an election can be held, the American supplies for Yugoslavia should be freely distributed without the Communists being in control of the distribution, as they are at present. LONDON, August 26. Flying Fortresses, with guns loaded, have resumed the American Vienna to Udine air run, carryingmails and freight. A pilot said he flew along the prescribed corridor avoiding Yugoslav territory. A Flying Fortress is reported to be making ,the run daily henceforth. No passengers are being carried. The bodies' of the four American flyers shot down on August 19 have been brought from the hill village where they had been buried to Ljubljana, under a guard of honour from the Yugoslav Fourth Army. An American military attache said he had been instructed to ship the remains to America foi" reburial. In Caserta to-day General Sir William Morfin said the Belgrade radio’s statement that Allied aircraft had continued to fly over Yugoslavia since the American transport planes were shot down was irresponsible and malicious. He added that the most stringent precautions were taken by British and American authorities to ensure that planes did not do so.